Wil Wheaton celebrates his big four-oh by declaring it "Don't Be A Dick Day."

On July 29th, Wil Wheaton, nerdling prince and former Star Trek incumbent, will turn forty years old. While it's traditional to receive gifts on one's birthday, Wil only wants one thing from you: He wants you to avoid being a dick.

"Hi! I'm Wil Wheaton, and my birthday is July 29th," reads a message on dontbeadickday.com. "I can think of no better birthday gift than for my birthday to be known as Don't Be A Dick Day."

"I believe in you, Internet. I know you can make this happen."

How does one celebrate Don't Be A Dick Day? If the website's FAQ and this handy chart are to be believed, all you need to do is check if you're being a dick. Then, should you discover that you are, in fact, being a dick, cut it out.

Was it only me who saw the link and thought 'When the hell did they allow apostrophes into URLs?' followed quickly by 'oh god, there's gonna be so many badly placed ones, followed by so much pedant rage'.

That's a very nice sentiment Wil, but I can already tell from some of the other posters on this thread that it's going to be a massive failure. Some (read: "many") people are just natural born dicks. ¬__¬

canadamus_prime:That's a very nice sentiment Wil, but I can already tell from some of the other posters on this thread that it's going to be a massive failure. Some (read: "many") people are just natural born dicks. ¬__¬

I particularly like the implication that because he mentioned "if a woman enters a game" and "don't be a dick" in the same quote, he's now sexist.

"I actually have a thing to say to guys who play video games," he said. "When a woman joins the game, like... don't be a dick."

Being a Trek fan and thinking Wheaton was a pretty cool guy I had nothing but respect for him but this quote just means he's caught up in this PC bullshit too.

Listen folks, women want to be treated equally so they should be. If you're a dick to other guys, then you SHOULD be a dick to women too. Anything else is preferential treatment.

Watch how many women come along to defend preferential treatment.

so you're advicating being a dick? so everybody should be a dick to everyone else? I am pretty sure you're not a dick on the internet, but we should not be dicks to anyone; and just saying "don't indiscrimatly be a dick" doesn't fix the promblem; if I go around poisoning people, it doesn't make it right if I do it indiscriminatly; I am still poisoning people and thats wrong because people don't deserve being poisoned/being insulted by a dick by some person whose grasping for whatever that compells them to do said acts

Nobody said being a dick to men is right while being a dick to women is wrong; being a dick to anybody is wrong.

P.s: he metioned women specically because ot just so happens that examples of really horrible things being said to women is being talked about right now

"I actually have a thing to say to guys who play video games," he said. "When a woman joins the game, like... don't be a dick."

Being a Trek fan and thinking Wheaton was a pretty cool guy I had nothing but respect for him but this quote just means he's caught up in this PC bullshit too.

Listen folks, women want to be treated equally so they should be. If you're a dick to other guys, then you SHOULD be a dick to women too. Anything else is preferential treatment.

Watch how many women come along to defend preferential treatment.

so you're advicating being a dick? so everybody should be a dick to everyone else? I am pretty sure you're not a dick on the internet, but we should not be dicks to anyone; and just saying "don't indiscrimatly be a dick" doesn't fix the promblem; if I go around poisoning people, it doesn't make it right if I do it indiscriminatly; I am still poisoning people and thats wrong because people don't deserve being poisoned/being insulted by a dick by some person whose grasping for whatever that compells them to do said acts

Nobody said being a dick to men is right while being a dick to women is wrong; being a dick to anybody is wrong.

P.s: he metioned women specically because ot just so happens that examples of really horrible things being said to women is being talked about right now

That he mentioned women especially IS my problem. It's funny how people claim that men have all the power but when women complain, everyone fuckin' jumps onboard to be chivalrous. That shit makes me sick.

"I actually have a thing to say to guys who play video games," he said. "When a woman joins the game, like... don't be a dick."

Being a Trek fan and thinking Wheaton was a pretty cool guy I had nothing but respect for him but this quote just means he's caught up in this PC bullshit too.

Listen folks, women want to be treated equally so they should be. If you're a dick to other guys, then you SHOULD be a dick to women too. Anything else is preferential treatment.

Watch how many women come along to defend preferential treatment.

Women are definitely treated worse on the Internet pal, and if you can't figure that out you really need to click that fat, slut, or ugly link (or whatever the order is). I've been on the Internet for a while and I have gotten nowhere near the level of shit that site shows women getting.